Farm and open-cast coalmine at Coal Creek near Roxburgh

Date
Between 1923 and 1928
By
Harliwich, Nicholas John, 1888-1956
Reference
Pan-1940-F
Description

Panoramic view looking down over a paddock of long grass. A single-storeyed wooden house with a picket fence in front is situated on the far side of the road which runs across the image. There are three lorries parked outside a large iron shed on the right. Small cottage on the far right. The road leads up to an open-cast quarry for coal on the left. Stone walls by the road to the quarry and another iron shed. Cart parked in paddock in the left foreground. Taken by Robert Percy Moore.

Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - N.J. Harliwitch [i.e. Harliwich]. Otago. 4 oils. 2 B&W. Cream house, tin roof. Purple lucere [i.e. lucerne] paddocks in bloom. Tree on left of path lilac bloom. Coalfield, blue grey showing coal at seam. [Lorries?] brown red, brown iron roof.; Marginal notes on negative - 3 3 3 [in list formation]

Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 103.1 cm

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Curator required
Part of
Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Format
1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Panoramic negative 24.7 x 103.1 cm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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